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was and always will be; that He never had a beginning and never will have an end.”

Q. Where is God?

A. God is everywhere.

The Marvels of Astronomy

The ubiquity and omnipotence of God are displayed in the wonders of creation. Consider, first of all, the immense size of the heavenly bodies. Our earth is certainly a huge globe; it is more than 10,000 miles in circumference. An express train, running at the rate of 20 miles an hour, would take three weeks to form the circuit of the earth. The sun is a far larger sphere; its diameter is more than a hundred times greater than the diameter of the earth. The sun would make a million and a half of such globes as our earth. And yet there are other orbs in comparison with which our sun is a mere grain of sand.

Furthermore, let us consider the enormous distance of the heavenly bodies. It is computed that our earth is 92,000,000 miles distant from the sun. A cannonball, fired from the earth, would, provided it traveled all the way at the same rate of speed, take 25 years to reach the sun. Light, which travels 186,000 miles in a second, takes eight minutes to traverse the distance that separates our earth from the sun. There are some stars, the light of which does not reach us for years, or even centuries. The light of the polar star takes 60 years on its way to our earth.

The space of the universe is inconceivably vast.